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They touch each other, lead dust from rattling around, the gasses, etc. There's a lot.
And when you actually find out how incredibly little it takes, accumulatively, and that it stays with you basically forever... Handling lead in any capacity is bad stuff. It's very very toxic.
Imagining people breathing it and handling it and having it around your home and on your clothes. It starts to paint a picture.... A lead picture.